
SPL has created five Facebook Cover images with particularly potent quotes from His Holiness Pope Francis. Enjoy.

In 2009, Bergoglio said that extreme poverty and the "unjust economic structures that give rise to great inequalities" are violations of human rights and that social debt is "immoral, unjust and illegitimate."

Injure not the poor because they are poor, nor crush the needy at the gate;
For the LORD will defend their cause, and will plunder the lives of those who plunder them.
Proverbs 22:22-23

“If we don’t love the poor, and do all we can to improve their lot, we’re going to go to Hell.”
Archbishop Chaput, Philadelphia

10 Political Goals as stated by the United States Council of Catholic Bishops.

"Everything I do or say is filtered through my internal screen of Catholicism. I am thrilled beyond compare at the number libertarians that carry rosary beads in their pockets."

"[The ancient's] implicit prophecy that the emancipation of technology, of the arts, from moral and political control would lead to a disaster or to the dehumanization of man has not yet been refuted."

These themes from Catholic social teaching provide a moral framework that does not easily fit ideologies of "right" or "left," "liberal" or "conservative," or the platform of any political party.

He who shuts his ear to the cry of the poor will himself also call and not be heard.
Proverbs 21:13